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Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter
freebeacon.com ^ | August 25, 2014 3:30 pm | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 08/25/2014 6:10:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.

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“This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda [?], and assist in the preservation of open debate,” the grant said.

... “Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.

... The government-funded researchers hope that the public will use their tool in the future to report on other Twitter users.

“Truthy uses a sophisticated combination of text and data mining, social network analysis, and complex networks models,” the website adds. “To train our algorithms, we leverage crowdsourcing: we rely on users like you to flag injections of forged grass-roots activity. Therefore, click on the Truthy button when you see a suspicious meme!”


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To: BenLurkin

Today Twit, tomorrow the World!


21 posted on 08/25/2014 6:39:11 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: BenLurkin

AttackWatch 2.0

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23 posted on 08/25/2014 6:43:57 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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FReepers, Let's go!
Everyone needs to donate!




September's Coming!

24 posted on 08/25/2014 6:52:25 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: BenLurkin
ATTACK WAAAAAATCH!
25 posted on 08/25/2014 6:54:09 PM PDT by struggle
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To: BenLurkin

if memory serves, one of the leaders of the Clan with the Tan, the Black Political Caucus, had his daughter approved to look into news rooms...So seeing this buffoon doing the same thing for a PRIVATE COMPANT twitter, is an example of communism as OBAMA wants to control speech and identify HIS enemies


26 posted on 08/25/2014 6:54:15 PM PDT by Understand the stimulus
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To: Gay State Conservative

I would consider it an honor to be in their communist database. It is also the duty of all true patriots to crush these people when given the chance. I hope we have that chance.


27 posted on 08/25/2014 6:54:57 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: BenLurkin

We have always been at war with Eurasia. Obama never said ISIS was the jayvee team. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. This administration will be the most transparent ever. etc.

28 posted on 08/25/2014 6:58:00 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: BenLurkin

not fedgov’s job or purvue. they are not the arbiters of what is or isn’t true.


29 posted on 08/25/2014 6:58:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly


30 posted on 08/25/2014 7:02:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: usconservative

“What’s a “twitter?””

Our president?


31 posted on 08/25/2014 7:02:30 PM PDT by moovova
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To: BenLurkin

So watch your buzzwords, especially when announcing your “block parties”. Dont mention: Freedom, Constitution, 2A, FEMA, Supreme Court, Administration, Founding Fathers or Rule of Law. These are all “dog whistle” phrases for dangerous subversives donchaknow.


32 posted on 08/25/2014 7:06:24 PM PDT by moodyskeptic (Counter counterculturist)
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To: moodyskeptic

I stay away from Twitter and Facebook. Even a NASCAR driver lost his career because NASCAR objected to his mild comments.


33 posted on 08/25/2014 7:08:21 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: Zeppo

No they are quite serious...

Remember this?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-campaign-launches-truth-team/

And this?

http://www.freep.com/article/20080930/NEWS15/80930007/Report-Obama-truth-squad-stirs-up-controversy

And lets not forget..

Flag@whitehouse.gov

I have always maintained that American Fascism will not come from the right and the ideals of individual liberty....it will come from the left and collectivism.

It takes a village.....to build a gas chamber....


34 posted on 08/25/2014 7:19:59 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: BenLurkin

Will the algorithm track all the lies coming from the administration? How about the hate speech directed to Christians, the Tea Party, etc.

I should tweet the Old Testament but the only tweets I hear are from the birds out back.


35 posted on 08/25/2014 7:23:34 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Jane Austen
I stay away from Twitter and Facebook. Even a NASCAR driver lost his career because NASCAR objected to his mild comments.

Good for you.

I see all kinds of ways how what people post online can come back to haunt them. I foresee a time, for example, when insurance companies might employ some algorithm to determine if an insurance applicant might be a high risk based on what the applicant has posted online.

Or even based on their shopping habits (charging a six pack once too often and you might be a higher risk for drunk driving).

Likewise, could affect whether an employer might offer you a job or a promotion.

I also wonder if what you post might be twisted and used against you if arrested.

36 posted on 08/25/2014 7:26:50 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: sagar
Typical commie tactics.

Bingo!

37 posted on 08/25/2014 7:27:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (New York Times headline gaffe:'Obama Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course')
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To: BenLurkin; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

38 posted on 08/25/2014 7:30:02 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: BenLurkin

HEY! WHITE HUT! YEAH, YOU!

I’m over here! BRING IT!

I hate Communists in the US Federal Government!

If the shoe fits, ALL y’all look me up in TEXAS!

BTW, by now the NSA has my addy on file - - - - .


39 posted on 08/25/2014 8:03:00 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: null and void

i guess we are all in trouble now


40 posted on 08/25/2014 8:13:04 PM PDT by Nifster
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